(FRANCE 24)-History, as the saying goes, doesn’t repeat itself, but it does often rhyme. Four years after refusing to concede to Joe Biden with unproven claims of electoral fraud that culminated in the January 6 assault on the Capitol, former president Donald Trump is once again casting doubt on the US presidential election. Now in a close […]
Baltasar Engonga, the Director-General of the National Financial Investigation Agency in Equatorial Guinea, has been arrested for allegedly having extramarital relationships with the sister of the country’s president and the wives of notable people. It was learnt that the illicit affairs were seen in sex tapes recovered from his house in the course of a […]
PHOTO | BBC Boeing workers have voted to accept the aviation giant’s latest pay offer, ending a damaging seven-week-long walkout. Striking workers can start returning to their jobs as early as Wednesday, or as late as 12 November, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) union says. Under the new contract, they will […]
The National Treasury is exploring a series of reforms aimed at boosting national savings and encourage investments in the capital markets. According to National Treasury and Economic Planning Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi, there is need for pension schemes to diversify their portfolios and explore new investment avenues beyond traditional assets. While Kenya’s savings culture has […]
The Kenya Landscape Actors’ Platform (KenLAP) is backing streamlining of various laws regulating the country’s landscape in a bid to mobile sufficient resources to support landscape restoration. According to the platform, the country’s landscape is currently facing severe degradation as a result of among others, climate change, unsustainable land use practices, population increase and deforestation. […]
The number of charging piles for electric vehicles (EV) in China reached 11.43 million as of the end of September this year, marking an increase of 49.6 percent from a year ago, the latest government data showed. Among them, around 3.33 million were public charging facilities while 8.1 million were private, according to data from […]
India’s Adani slashes electricity to Bangladesh: power officials. Indian conglomerate Adani has slashed cross-border electricity supply to Bangladesh by half due to some $850 million in unpaid bills, power officials said Sunday, with Dhaka scrambling to boost production to stem blackouts. “We are trying to meet the gap by running other plants,” Rezaul Karim, chairman […]
OPEC+ Eight members of the OPEC+ group of oil-producing nations said on Sunday they were extending supply cuts until the end of December. The countries “have agreed to extend the November 2023 voluntary production adjustments of 2.2 million barrels per day for one month until the end of December 2024”, the organisation said in a […]
South African police arrest 565 illegal miners. South African police on Sunday said that 340 illegal miners were arrested after being forced out of an abandoned mine shaft due to a lack of food and water. This followed the previous arrest of 225 others, bringing the total number of clandestine miners arrested so far to […]
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly. The International Monetary Fund will this week begin its delayed fourth review of Egypt’s 46-month loan programme, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said on Sunday. The review had originally been scheduled for the end of September. It comes under an agreement Cairo signed with the IMF in April, expanding an original loan […]
Botswana’s new President, Dumo Gideon Boko, assumed office on Monday after outgoing President Mokgweetsi Masisi, 63, formally handed over power. A video posted on the official X account of the President’s office showed Masisi welcoming Boko as he arrived to take over. The two leaders embraced and engaged in a brief conversation as they headed […]
A section of opposition leaders has voiced strong dissent against a proposal to extend the term limits of elected leaders, as well as the planned introduction of new tax measures. Wiper Leader Kalonzo Musyoka and his DAP-K counterpart Eugene Wamalwa have cautioned that they will mobilise Kenyans to resist any attempt to extend the tenure […]
